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- From: gumby@tweedledumb.cygnus.com (D V Henkel-Wallace)
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- Subject: bison (was: Stallman and friends)
- Date: 10 Jan 93 14:29:32
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- In-reply-to: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:27:08 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:27:08 GMT
- From: troy@cbme.unsw.EDU.AU (Troy Rollo)
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- From article <gtall.726514732@ogre>, by gtall@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Gerry Allwein):
- > I just a simple yes or no answer to a simple question: does a parser produced
- > by GNU Bison fall under the FSF copyright?
-
- No, it doesn't. However if that parser is part of a commercial product or
- used as part of a commercial product it is in violation of the license for
- Bison, which is unique among the GNU tools in that it is the only tool for
- which the output cannot be used for commercial purposes.
-
- Actually, bison works by emitting a skeleton (it comes with two) that
- calls your parser. You can always write your own skeleton (it's only
- a page of code) -- and then you can do what you wish with your parser.
-